ABSTRACT
The Protocol and the BEPAT (Building Envelope Performance Assessment Tool) are developed to facilitate the evaluation of the performance of light-frame building envelopes used in residential buildings in order to provide a fast check of the building envelope system compliance against performance requirements. This paper focuses on the validation phase of the development of BEPAT. To obtain a different level of results in building envelope performance, and because of the possibility of comparison and verification results based on existing data, five case studies are chosen for validation. The results of validation show that the Protocol and the Assessment Tool are effectively used to establish the performance profiles of these five case studies, demonstrating in each case the adequacy of each parameter. The results also demonstrate that the protocol provides a means of comparing the relative performance of parameters across case studies.
